Family Kamenovi (except Kamen who is taking the photo)
Night of the Giant Zucchinis!!
Starting the "long march" to the Rila lakes (not to Galois theory :)
The trail marker's painted on the tree
The happy couple at the second Rila lake
Sisters Kamenovi at the second Rila lake
The fog descends (and kept haunting us throughout the weekend)
Caught between the sky and the water
Looking down on Twins Lake (photographed by a twin :)
J+L at the 4th Rila Lake
The little waterfall is actually huge, but this is as close as we got
Spider, spider, spinning fast, in the forests and the grass (all apologies Blake)
Jason disappears into the mist
There's another spiderweb hidden among the cotton flowers
Ljudmila makes a new friend in a mountain pasture
Secret social lives of horses: mutual grooming
Finally we start our descent
Weary from long hiking
Mehana where they catch the trout out of the river and serve it for lunch!
Rila monastery
Clocktower in the monastery
Rila mountains behind Rila monastery
Where's Elia? (played similarly to "Where's Waldo")
Ljudmila in front of monastery cupolas
The ceilings of the monastery are filled with beautiful old paintings
The painted arcade
Three storks in one nest -- someone had triplets!
This village house has alot of . . . "character" :)
The menus in this mehana are engraved on wood
Sisters Kamenovi in a village on the Greek border
Cute wooden spice dishes in the mehana
Playgrounds in mountain villages are hand-carved :)
Every house hangs a lantern like this one
From ivy-covered halls to ivy-covered everything!
Scarabs on a tea flower
Experimenting with B+W mode
